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Reena Kapoor, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been appointed director of the Yale Department of Psychiatry's Law & Psychiatry Division effective Nov. 1, 2024.

The Yale Conference for Alcohol Research and Education (YCARE) 2024 will take place on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The event is a dynamic day of learning, interaction, and collaboration focused on the theme of alcohol research. This year’s in-person event will feature podium talks, breakout sessions, a panel discussion, poster presentations, and more avenues to learn from and network with colleagues.

Did Dr. Alok Kanojia's livestreamed conversations with a troubled video game champion cross an ethical line?Article quotes Charles Dike of Psychiatry (pictured).

Reena Kapoor, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, is referenced in a Boston Globe story about the effort in Massachusetts to monitor health care and mental health services in the state's prisons. Kapoor is an independent monitor who twice yearly assesses mental health services provided by the Massachusetts Correction Department.

Tobias Wasser, MD, associate professor adjunct of psychiatry, and Rocksheng Zhong, MD, MHS, lecturer in psychiatry, are co-editors of the book, “Psychiatry and the Law, Second Edition.”

Charles Dike, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Law and Psychiatry Division, is the new president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL).

Now in its second year, the Yale Conference for Alcohol Research and Education (YCARE) was held on September 30, 2023. Offering a comprehensive agenda of talks, panel discussions, and poster presentations, the all-day event brought together Yale's researchers, clinicians, and other stakeholders under the banner of alcohol research. Bubu Banini, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (digestive diseases), Yale School of Medicine (YSM), spearheaded the conference, along with co-directors David Fiellin, MD, professor of medicine (general medicine) and emergency medicine, YSM, and public health, Yale School of Public Health; Graeme Mason, PhD, professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and of psychiatry, YSM; and Sherry McKee, PhD, professor of psychiatry, YSM.

Traci Cipriano, PhD, JD, assistant clinical professor in the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Law and Psychiatry Division, gave the Opening Plenary Keynote at the 3-Day 2023 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in New Orleans on October 17.

Sherry McKee, PhD, professor of psychiatry, served on a technical advisory panel for a new guide for best practices for re-entry for people with mental health and substance use issues.